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...labor costs and makeup time have made it attractive to newspapers and periodicals of small circulation, where speed is not as essential as it is to metropolitan dailies. The time may come when offset speed will compete on near-equal terms with letterpress. In The Bronx. N.Y.. R. Hoe & Co., which makes both offset and letterpress equipment, is currently testing a web offset press, incorporating many improvements conceived by a Copenhagen printing firm, that is designed to print a 72-page newspaper, in four colors, at speeds in excess of 50,000 copies an hour. This...
Most of the milpas are very rocky, with white stones everywhere in the black earth. The Indians hoe around the rocks and around the corn, deft and sure in upturning the green, prolific weeds within a fraction of an inch of the corn shoots--never uprooting the corn, never cutting through the bean plants or squash vines they grow with the corn...
...began again in the afternoon, talking as we worked, but not stopping. Once in a while one of the men paused to spit on his hands, or to push the black mud off his hoe with his bare foot. We never wore our leather sandals while working. Sometimes we would hoe over an ant hill, and the small black ants would nibble at our feet...
...three sessions together, Johnson and Sarit got down to brass tacks. At one point, the Vice President bemused the Premier by making a solid point with some corn-pone rhetoric: "My daddy taught me back in Texas what to do when you see a snake. We take a hoe off the wall and get him: Now, there are lots of snakes around here. We have our hands on the hoe handle. Are you going to grab the handle with us so we can get those snakes together...
When the Premier and the Vice President finally emerged from their ornate conference room, Sarit put his hands on the hoe by agreeing to send his Foreign Minister that night to the 14-nation conference on Laos in Geneva. The Thais had been disgustedly boycotting the meeting, because they felt-justifiably-that it was bound to give Laos to the Communists. Said a relieved U.S. State Department aide: "It's a lot more effective to have the Thais there spelling out the hopes and fears of the Asian nations than to have the U.S. trying...